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Full Tank Parenting Helping Christian moms go from stressed and struggling to calm and connected, so you can bring more peace and joy into your families. See you inside!

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Are you a Christian mom that has tried begging and pleading with your kids? Using time outs and “consequences” with little to no improvement? Encouraging your kids to be “good” and hoping they will listen to you? Well this is what most parents try. But as a Psychologist and Expert in Human Behavior, this is the wrong way to go about parenting. What we recommend is completely different. We d

on’t rely on the top ten parenting tips. We don’t want to give you band aid solutions or bribing tactics. And we certainly don’t want to offer anything that might unintentionally cause other problems. We want to give simple, yet effective tools to help moms feel connected, calm and joy within their family again, and we suggest this. https://www.facebook.com/groups/fulltankparenting

Full Tank Parenting is a community of Christian Moms who are tired of dealing with the “crisis and chaos” of everyday life with kids. For parents who are tired of the “tips and tricks” of traditional parenting and/or Christian parenting advice. So before wasting more time and money guessing how to parent…

For parents who are looking for a permanent solution that works once and for all. We share a Christian mindset and parenting tools through a lens of faith and psychology, as well as host regular trainings and Q & A’s to overcome negative beliefs, eliminate chaos from cycling through and ultimately be more effective as a parent. https://www.facebook.com/groups/fulltankparenting

Click the link above and join other Christian moms who come together to learn about creating the family life they have always dreamed of... absolutely free.

07/17/2021

Just thinking about how it is very challenging to be a mother these days...especially this last year...with the pandemic, with the changes in schooling for everyone depending on your location and state and/or school board decisions, with wearing masks, with requirements of schools, with helping our children learn ... with having our children and ourselves adjusting to all these changes. The stress seems to have multiplied.
But take heart..." The eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. " 2Chronicles 16:9.❤🙏🙂

Just wondering... how satisfied are you with your parenting relationships, on a scale of 1 to 10 ( with 10 being the mos...
06/15/2021

Just wondering... how satisfied are you with your parenting relationships, on a scale of 1 to 10 ( with 10 being the most satisfied)? 🤔

06/08/2021

As my daughter, Amelia, graduated from high school this weekend, I was feeling nostalgic…

About 9 years ago, when I was busy with family life as a mother, my husband and I decided it was time to renovate our 1950’s home.

This meant packing everything up, moving out of our house, moving into a small apartment for a few months and moving back into the new house.😲

Meanwhile, I was still trying to be a full time homeschooling mother --- leading a 4H science club, transporting kids to hockey, gymnastics, violin lessons, and drum lessons, on top of doing the basic academic lessons.

As you can imagine, I was STRUGGLING with trying to manage everything.😳

I remember moving into the new apartment. With a desk set up for Amelia, who was 10 years old then. I thought it would be a good day to review fractions. I still remember going through a lesson with her. At the end of it, she let out a big wail, her mouth wide open and tears rolling down her cheeks.😭

Yes, she was crying in the face of fractions.

At the time, I couldn’t quite understand. We had already reviewed alot of this material already for several months, so I thought that introducing another new concept with fractions was ok.

I thought I was moving slow enough. But no. Even though this new concept seemed “incremental to me”, it was “a big step for her”.

Of course, with hindsight, writing this now in 2021, I see why she broke down in tears-- her difficulty concentrating in the chaos of the moving and renovating, my anxiety about being "behind", and my not being present for her probably all contributed to how she was feeling and affected how much or rather, how little she was learning.😞

Amidst all the chaos of life, I was still STRUGGLING to piece together a semblance of an education.

My own anxieties about “being behind” academically were most likely operating. While plunging ahead might have seemed the most “logical” step -- for me, it was not the most reasonable path to take --for her.

But my daughter’s crying and tears signaled to me that SOMETHING ELSE needed to be done. I may have been ready to move forward with the lesson fractions. But she certainly wasn’t.

I had to go back to figure out what was happening or not happening in order to help her.

Now, this is a lesson that I always remember. Not only in math, but also in life.

Sometimes, you have to go “backwards...to go forward”. 😀


Thinking about the way that we connect with our children, especially during these trying times, sometimes, we have to look back and see what the REAL issue is. That allows us to try a slightly different approach that we are not used to, because it makes more sense to do so. For them. ❤️

Are you wishing your connection with your children would be stronger?

Feel free to send me a PM to explore this further.

~Jean
🙏❤️😀

Jean Pao Wilson, PhD
Psychologist
Parenting Expert

“The years fly by, but the days are long.” ❤It’s hard to believe that today, after 15 years of homeschooling and 3 and ½...
06/05/2021

“The years fly by, but the days are long.” ❤

It’s hard to believe that today, after 15 years of homeschooling and 3 and ½ years of public school, there will be a high school graduate in my house.

This is a season for savoring the moments, especially after the challenging year that we have all had.

From the early milestones of parents’ celebrating their child’s first word and their first step, to celebrating the middle milestones of making it through the school day in one piece, to reading, to playing their game or performing in a show, and then to getting their driver’s license, making it through the year of virtual learning and now...graduation!

Victories are the sweetest when the journey seems the hardest.

Coming through the twists and turns of life, as a psychologist and parent, I know how important it is to take the time to celebrate every day.

To savor the moments. Big or small. Even in the midst of the “long days”.

I have had my share of long days, but these moments are the times that make those long days worthwhile.

What are the moments you are celebrating today?

🙂🎉❤🙏

Jean Pao Wilson
Psychologist
Parenting Expert

A few weeks ago, I had the “privilege” of having 2 roosters on my property. As some of you might have seen pictures a f...
06/02/2021

A few weeks ago, I had the “privilege” of having 2 roosters on my property. As some of you might have seen pictures a few months ago of my daughter, Amelia, with the new Black Copper Marans rooster, Rex, that she has added to her flock of chickens that she is raising. But that temporary addition meant that the previous rooster, Rafiki, had competition.

And what do you think happens when you add another rooster to the mix?

Yup. They both try to claim their territory at the crack of dawn. 😯

Now these roosters were not even within viewing distance of each other.

Rafiki stayed with the hens in the “Chicken Shed”.

Since Rex was actually discovered to have some signs of possible frostbite, Amelia brought him inside to be the “pampered house chicken” to recover in a room in the basement... conveniently located, almost right under my bedroom.

At the crack of dark, each rooster heard the other’s crowing and could not just be quiet. Each had to have the last “crow” -- to claim their territory, which resulted in a dueling concert of about a 100 c**k a doodle do’s between the two of them!

Fortunately, this early morning concert happened only a few times, and after a week, Rooster Rafiki was brought to a new home.

While I now wake up to a solo serenade, the lessons of the dueling roosters has left an impression.

Sometimes, there are just things in our nature that we can’t let go. And we need to respect it. And it’s like that with raising children, too.

You’re often told that children are blank slates. As a mother and psychologist, I quickly learned that babies come with “their own personality”. It is just the way God made ‘em. ❤

It’s important to respect children’s nature as part of their unique God given personality and gifts-- even when it’s hard to see.

When you don’t recognize their nature and work with it, it sometimes could lead to more hassles and headaches. Maybe, you wish some part of your child’s personality could be “different” -- less nervous, more well behaved, quieter, louder, on time, or more attentive, etc.

Yet, just like the two roosters battling it out for dominance, so too will you end up in an endless power struggle, if you don't honor and leverage your child's natural strengths.

Not sure how to do that yet?

Click link below to join the Full Tank Parenting Group, where other parents come together to learn how to go from chaos and stress to calm and connection, without nagging, arguing or losing their patience, so they can bring more love, joy and harmony into their family for the long run.🙂❤🙏

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fulltankparenting

Hope to see you soon!

Jean Pao Wilson
Psychologist
Parenting Expert

To all the mothers....Happy Mother's Day!! ❤I read this quote about 20 years ago and thought it was beautiful then as I ...
05/09/2021

To all the mothers....Happy Mother's Day!! ❤

I read this quote about 20 years ago and thought it was beautiful then as I do now.

"The most important person on earth is a mother.
She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not.

She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral, a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body. The angels have not been blessed with such a grace.

They cannot share in God's creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can.

Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation.
What on God's good earth is more glorious than this--- to be a mother?"

~ Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty

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